Natalia Aguilar Vasquez

Natalia Aguilar Vásquez is a Colombian interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts. Her teaching and research focus on social and post-colonial justice, gender-based violence, and community building in times of conflict, particularly in Colombian, Mexican, and Argentine cultures. She is currently working on her book project “Animated Dwellings: Building Life Amidst the Violence, A Study of Livelihood in Colombian and Mexican Art and Literature,” which focuses on queer infrastructures and homes as alternatives against the violence of machista societies.

Her work has been published in the anthology Latin American Culture and The Limits of the Human, University of Florida Press, 2020, and in Vista, Journal of Visual Culture, among others.  She joins Emerson College as an Assistant Professor of Literature of the Americas.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Shaking Colombia’s Artistic Canon: Psychoactive Brews as Aesthetic Practice in Juan Cárdenas’ Los estratos” in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2022. (under review)

“Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz” in Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human, eds. Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant. University of Florida Press, 2020, pp.80-102.

“Espacio rehabilitado y geografía mutante en Ríos y silencios.” VISTA, Revista de Cultura Visual, no.5, Imperial Views: Colonial Visualities and Processes of Visual Decolonization, eds. Teresa Mendes Flores y Cecilia Jardemar, 2019, pp. 55-78.

“(Re)presentar lo ausente. La obra de Teresa Margolles y Óscar Muñoz” in Cuerpos ilegales. Sujeto, poder y escritura en América Latina, ed. Nanne Timmer, Almenara Press, 2018, pp. 71-93.

Articles

“¿A qué edad se puede empe[s]ar a torturar a un niño?: narrativa y anatomía de la violencia en Dos veces junio de Martín Kohan” en Andex. Revista de estudios literarios y culturales, no. 1, 2014, pp. 121-133.

Book Reviews

“Empeñar el cuerpo, empeñar los sueños: género, violencia y migración en Ceniza en la boca de Brenda Navarro” in Revista Baciyelmo, no. 4, 16, 2022, pp. 204-210.